Word: duress
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...worked to counter protests by Operation Rescue, in order to ensure that abortion clinics remain open, and has also helped to escort women into clinics under the duress of abortion opponents' protests...
...current unease concerns her identity as a Catholic martyr. Christian conversion is a delicate subject to Jews, since historically it often took place under duress. Although Stein's conversion was clearly voluntary, her "atonement" declaration rankles. (It also contradicts the current Pope's repeated description of the Jews as "elder brothers in faith.") But what most bothers the critics is the assumption that Stein's death resulted from her Catholicism. Witnesses reported that when she tried to confess her faith, an Auschwitz guard rebuffed her with the words, "You damned Jew." Thus her canonization strikes some as the hijacking...
...could make the housing contract Patently unfair and everyone would still sign it. Rather than read the fine print to examine personal liability, Harvard students focus only on the big picture: sign this housing contract or immerse yourself in the Cambridge rental market. Contracts signed under such duress are of dubious legitimacy...
Beaudreau is in fact a bit of a "ringer." She admits under duress that she is a former member of the Radcliffe Ultimate Frisbee team...
Evidence of this is the four sacks Linden endured Saturday in a game in which he rarely seemed under duress...